Explosions in the Sky at Sound on Sound Fest in 2016 (Photo by David Brendan Hall)
During my teenage years in San Antonio, I had a much cooler best friend with a punk dad. As such, his children annually attended
Fun Fun Fun Fest, the cultish music and comedy festival held at Austin s
Auditorium Shores. I joined in at age 16, just months after returning from a 2012 summer mission trip with my church choir.
Upon entry, the singer of Chicago shock act the
Dwarves dislodged my sunglasses and told me to let my hair down as I bobbed nervously (and happily) before the heavy-genre Black Stage. I got properly high for the first time waiting for
To speed up the extension of Main Street from the Oaks at Lakeway to Lohmans Crossing, the Lakeway City Council unanimously amended its planned unit development agreement with Oaks developer Stratus Properties, requiring the company begin construction on the road no later than March 15, with a March 15, 2023, completion date. The provision allows the city to take recourse against Stratus if those provisions are not met.
That decision Monday night was made shortly before the council unanimously revised its code of ordinances to clarify the purpose of a PUD and to make it a better district.
The council adopted an ordinance last month giving Stratus a five-month deadline to begin the road’s construction but notification issues caused the item to be brought back on Monday
In one of the most significant closures to hit Austin’s music industry during the COVID-19 pandemic, local concert promotions company Margin Walker closed up shop for good on Monday after staging hundreds of homegrown shows annually since 2016 at a variety of venues here and around the state. Tabled: Margin Walker heads Graham Williams and Ian Orth (r) at the ground of Sound on Sound Fest in 2016 (Photo by David Brendan Hall)
News of the organization’s closing hit in a mid-afternoon social media post Dec. 14, which characterized the move as a “very tough decision, but one that, essentially, made itself” given the pandemic’s nuclear impact on live entertainment. Substantial concert calendars went mostly black after March and 2021 remains shrouded in uncertainty. As such, having one of the largest independent show stagers in the state throw in the towel appears an ominous indicator of how slow a rebound the touring music industry faces.
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Texas live music champ knocked out due to economic impact of COVID Graham Williams, owner of Margin Walker Presents, is a longtime Austin music vet.
Photo by Chad Wadsworth One of the biggest champions of live music in Texas has been knocked out. Margin Walker Presents, the largest independent promotion company in Texas, has announced it is closing at the end of this week due to the economic impact of COVID-19. For most of us in the biz, March marked the beginning of the close of live entertainment, which continues now, and will continue for a long time to come, the Austin-based company said in a statement. The uncertainty and lack of resources have hammered down on those working in this world from venues to artists to festivals, promoters, and beyond.